ISPConfig - admin control panel
 

Gentlemen,

When logged in as admin on the tab "SITES" you will see "Redirect" and "Options"

At the moment I don't use this because I din't know how and I don't want to mess-up my server

But I want to learn so what can

• Redirect do for me ? and what about the flags ?
• how to use the field "Directives" in the Options tab ?

Redirect: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_rewrite.html
Directives: You can put any apache directive there that is allowed within a vhost: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/

This is explained quite quickly:


There are two redirection possibilities.

1. redirect to an other domain
   Just set the type to "no flag" and the path to "http://www.myotherdomain.com".
2. redirect to a subfolder
   Let's say you have www.example.com as a domain and you do not want to use the /web/ folder but the /web/exfolder/ for your data.
   1. visible redirect
      Choose R or R,L as type and enter /exfolder/ into the path field. Anyone calling www.example.com will be redirected to www.example.com/exfolder/ and this will be visible in the browser's address bar
   2. hidden redirect
      Choose no flag or L as type and enter /exfolder/ into the path field. It works the same as above with the difference that the user will still see www.example.com in the address bar.

oups till, you were faster

@ Croydon,

Thank you for your explanation and if I understand you I don't need to redirect.
I have two domains and they will have different content.

Maybe in future if I install "Joomla" in a folder named "joomla" and I want my visitors to visit something.org instead of someting.org/joomla

PS maybe you can explain "quite quickly" what to do with the field "Directives" in the Options tab ?
I liked your explanation in dummy language for redirect

Well, I don't think this is as easy as explaining redirect ;)

In short: you can put everything there that is allowed in a virtual host section inside the apache config.

Examples for directives (taken from the apache config generated by ispconfig):

You see it's really not easy to explain everything possible there ;)

@ Croydon,

I think I better leave this one alone !

I have a other question.

When finished installing my server ( at this moment there are no clients or websites ) I made a phpinfo.php file and it showed a lot and also information about Apache.
Now I have 2 clients ( me and my son ) with 3 websites and I copy the phpinfo.php file to the websites and now no Apache information ?

Does it show anything at all, or do you maybe see the PHP source code of the file in your browser?